Brick By Brick, the affordable housing development company set up by Croydon Council, has launched the Housing for a Better World 2020 design competition in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.
The initiative is seeking bold and thought-provoking ideas for how homes can improve the issues of health, sustainability and inequality for residents and wider communities.
The competition is open to all UK-based architectural practices that demonstrate a commitment to diversity and positive change within the profession and environment, and which is reflected in the diverse areas in which they work.
The winning practice will be commissioned to design one of the schemes on Brick By Brick’s next small sites programme, which is due to start in the autumn.
For more information and entry deadline dates, go to https://wearebrickbybrick.com/ourprojects/housing-for-a-better-world/
Covid-19 fails to stop firm’s charity drive
Leicestershire-based civil engineering firm Danaher & Walsh has donated £5,000 to Alex’s Wish charity, its selected charity partner of the year.
Staff fundraised through a series of events, including the firm’s 50th birthday celebration and various office sweepstakes and competitions. A gift sum was also made to the charity by the firm for planned events that were unable to go ahead due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alex’s Wish raises funds for treatments and research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Surveying firm lends a much-needed hand
Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors recently held a cash prize draw to support local charities that have been struggling financially in the current climate.
Through an initiative with Bambos Charalambous, MP for Enfield Southgate, the firm asked its clients and contacts to nominate a charity which is personal to them and has played an important role in the community during recent events.
The winning charities included Place2Be & MQ, Give A Book, Mary’s Meals, Age UK, Waltham Forest and Cooking Champions.
Each of the charities received a £500 donation.
Heroes of the high street
MonsterHero Safari is a new project aiming to bring a fun family experience to many of the UK’s struggling high streets this summer. All money raised through the initiative will help support NHS Charities Together.
The objective of the safari is to hunt down 10 “monstrous superheroes” displayed in public windows by utilising contactless NFC technology and QR codes.
Once all 10 MonsterHeroes are found the winning families will be rewarded with a free e-book.
The project is being co-ordinated by Martin Blackwell, former CEO of ATCM and the Charity Retail Association, working alongside Thyngs, a physical-digital marketing & NFC specialist agency, and Toolbox Marketing.
More than 70 UK high streets have now signed to take part in the project.
For more information and to sign up, click here.
Campaign to help Sussex community
Sussex-based real estate agency Parsons Son & Basley has launched a campaign to support charities and not-for-profit groups and services affected by Covid-19.
It will donate £500 every quarter to help a charity, project or cause within the Sussex area nominated by the public.
PS&B will select three of the nominations put forward and then ask the public to vote for the cause they feel deserves the donation.
The first £500 donation will be awarded in September. Nominations should be submitted to psandb@pmwcom.co.uk by 31 August.
For details, click here.
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